By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York state appeals court on Thursday rejected the National Rifle Association’s bid to end a corruption probe by state Attorney General Letitia James that the gun rights group has viewed as politically motivated. The unanimous decision by a five-judge panel of the Appellate Division in Manhattan …
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican and U.S. officials have agreed to work together more closely to tackle record migration at their shared border, the countries’ governments said in a joint statement on Thursday, a day after high-level talks on stemming record numbers. Following a visit to Mexico by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the …
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By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican presidential contender Nikki Haley declined on Wednesday night to say that slavery was one of the main causes of the U.S. Civil War, an omission she corrected on Thursday, but not before drawing rebukes from Democrats and some of her opponents. Haley, who is vying to be her party’s …
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By Ana Isabel Martinez, Sarah Morland and Valentine Hilaire MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico said on Wednesday it had struck unspecified “important” deals with the United States after talks that U.S. officials sought to focus on curbing record-high migration, a key issue in next year’s U.S. elections. Secretary of State Antony Blinken led the closed-door negotiations …
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(This Dec. 27 story has been corrected to fix the day to Tuesday in paragraph 1 and Wednesday in paragraph 2) By Jonathan Allen and Steve Gorman (Reuters) – American comic Tom Smothers, the elder half of the musical-comedy duo the Smothers Brothers, whose 1960s CBS variety show tested the limits of network censors and …
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By Greg Bensinger SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – General Motors has sued the city of San Francisco, seeking to recover more than $100 million, alleging that it was charged a higher tax bill than warranted because its Cruise self-driving car unit was improperly used to make the calculations. In the case filed in California Superior Court …
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By Steve Stecklow (Reuters) -Two U.S. senators have written to Elon Musk, Tesla’s top executive, calling on him to “swiftly” recall any steering and suspension parts that pose a safety risk. The letter cites “an alarming” Reuters investigation published on December 20 that exposed how Tesla has blamed drivers for frequent failures of components it …
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A U.S. court has rejected an appeal by former Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to review a 2019 ruling that sentenced him to life in prison. Guzman, who for years led the powerful Sinaloa cartel that is blamed for thousands of deaths in Mexico, had filed habeas corpus petitions …
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(Reuters) -Former President Donald Trump leads a pack of six candidates jostling to be the Republican presidential nominee in the 2024 election, while President Joe Biden faces little opposition in the Democratic Party in his campaign for a second term. Here is a timeline of events related to the Nov. 5, 2024, election between now …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican Donald Trump is planning to punish his political enemies, deport millions of migrants and reshape global trade with pricey tariffs if he wins a second White House term in the November 2024 presidential election, according to his campaign and media reports. Here is a look at some of the policies Trump has …
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